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Open Data Center Atlas

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20260204

The IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas provides locations and facility footprints (when available) of existing and projected data centers across the United States (U.S.). In addition to data center locations, the dashboard also provides complementary information on electricity infrastructure, municipal water supply, and high-speed fiber availability. This dashboard can be used to identify areas … Read more

Before AI Menace, it was MIDI Menace

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Decades before AI became a thing, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface became a thing, and all drummers everywhere — it was hyped and menaced and believed — would pretty promptly become obsolete, cast out of want and need! There may have been some of that initially, but drums are drums, humans are humans, and machines … Read more

30-state Digitry A New Kind of Electronica

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20260108

Breakthrough: Radical New AI Hardware Design That Nvidia Can’t Ignore | COSM 2025 – “There is no more bussing data back-and-forth to from memory; instead, it’s all done within the same device: computation and memory within the same device [and made on existing CMOS processing lines with no exotic materials or unduly requirements].” 11:30 in … Read more

Retired Larry Reveals His YouTube Income

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20260108

On one hand many people say YT pays pennies. Google ads certainly pays pennies. But here’s this guy, claiming $1200 after one-month and 5,500 subscribers. “Number of subscribers really has nothing to do with how much money you earn” 7:15 in. It still blows my mind how different everyone’s youtube journey is $1200 for 5500 … Read more

Digitalia as Doctrine – The Arc from Chess to AI

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Considering the chess → computation → AI arc as a deliberate civilizational pipeline, not an accident. The framing assumes intentionality, long-range planning, and ideological continuity. Chess as a Pre-Modern Control System Disguised as a Game Chess is routinely described as an “ancient game,” but this description conceals its functional role. Chess is not merely recreational; … Read more

T1 T3 Frame Relay and Everything After – Data Centers, Carrier Grade Comms, Internet Backbone, Well Beyond ATT into AI Nets Comms Brains and Why AI DCs Geo-Cluster

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With the explosion of Data Centers, possibly the epitome of “the cloud”, it’s interesting to look back at what got us here. Below is a clean, chronological, carrier-grade explanation of Frame Relay, T1, T3 — and everything faster, focused on how WANs actually evolved, how they were sold, and why each generation replaced the previous … Read more

VL-JEPA AI Abstraction

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20251229

The distinction between ‘describing’ and ‘understanding’ really hits home. We’ve been so focused on chatbots that can talk, but VLJ’s approach to actually comprehending temporal meaning feels like the missing piece for real-world AI. Descriptions up from atomic level is absurd for nearly everything, yet that is precisely how LLMs presently operate. Abstraction is key. … Read more

AI Beyond LLM

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20251222

LLMs as we know them are already on their way out. In this video, I break down five breakthroughs that will redefine AI over the next 18 months: Diffusion LLMs (with Stanford’s Stefano Ermon), Power Attention for massive context, hidden/latent-space thinking and private chains of thought, Google’s Nested Learning for continual learning, and the most … Read more

Northern Virginia DataCenter Alley – 40% of Internet Traffic

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20251208

200 already built, 100 more already slated. Ashburn, Vigrinia (Loudoun County). Over 40% of Virginia power grid electricity feeds these monstrous facilities. GOOGLE MAPhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Ashburn,+VA/@39.0160549,-77.4632026,3485m WIKIPEDIAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor#Internet_infrastructure_and_data_centers Transcript